Justin Bieber, king of collaborations-turned-summer bops, released another new track this afternoon with BloodPop, entitled "Friends." It's a catchy song about life after a breakup. And a look at the lyrics suggests there could be a couple of nods to both Selena Gomez and the kind of relationship Bieber aspires to have with her.

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Bieber wrote the song with Warner/Chappell Music senior VP and co-head of A&R Katie Vinten, producer BloodPop, and Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter, who have written songs with Gomez in the past. It's possible that shared experience with Michaels and Tranter played into the themes in the songwriting. But still, here are the lyrics, via Genius, with possible Gomez references noted:

Verse 1:

I was wonderin' 'bout your mama

Did she get that job she wanted?

Selena Gomez's mom Mandy Teefey and Justin Bieber's manager set up a first meeting between the two way back in 2009, so Bieber has known Teefey from the very beginning. Teefey is no longer Gomez's manager, but she and Gomez worked together producing 13 Reasons Why—a project they spent years developing before Netflix took it.

"[We don't talk] every day, but every now and then she hits up my phone. Well, I hit hers too." In September 2016, a month after their big Instagram fallout, a source told Us Weeklythat Gomez had changed her number and told people not to give it to him.

Gomez and Bieber came to a pretty ugly and public end for good last August, when the two argued in Bieber's Instagram comments about his flaunting his relationship with then-girlfriend Sofia Richie, and then lashing out against fans criticizing Richie. "If you can't handle the hate, then stop posting pictures of your girlfriend lol," Gomez wrote. "It should be special between you two only. Don't be mad at your fans. They love you."

Bieber responded, "It's funny to see people that used me for attention and still try to point the finger this way. Sad. All love." Gomez posted on Snapchat the next morning that she regretted her remarks.

But both have said in interviews that they will always care about one another. Bieber told Access Hollywood in November 2015 that Gomez, "...is someone I love dearly. I'm never going to stop loving her. I'm never going to stop checking in on her. I don't think if you end a relationship, you should end that, unless it was super toxic and you guys were hurting each other physically or mentally." Gomez told Win February 2016 that while she couldn't do their on-off relationship anymore, "I care about his health and well-being." So there's always potential.

The Weeknd seemingly responded to these actions in his Nav collaboration "Some Way" in February, where he taunted about taking Bieber's girl. "Oh yeah, yeah, I just hit a lick and I know you feelin' some way/(nah, nah nah nah, nah nah nah)/I just took that chick, and I know you feelin' some way, oh yeah/She just want a n–a like me, you feelin' some way, way, way, yeah."

Wonderin' if you think about me

Actually, don't answer that

Gomez has given some indication she's thought about Bieber this year: She briefly liked and then unliked a Jelena shot in February:

And during a radio interview in June, she complimented Biebe , praising his Manchester benefit concert performance. "I thought Justin did great. It was really beautiful," she said.

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